# Skool Comments Scraper (`blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper`) Actor

Scrape every comment and reply on Skool without a login: text, likes, date, depth and the commenter's name, bio, location, LinkedIn, Instagram and website. Paste post URLs, or a community URL to collect the comments under its latest or top posts. Export JSON, CSV, Excel.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [BlueskyScraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Lead generation, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.70 / 1,000 comments

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

**Skool Comments Scraper** collects every comment and reply on Skool **without a login or cookies**: text, likes, date, depth (comment or reply), the post it belongs to, and the commenter's **name, bio, location, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and website**. Paste post URLs — or a community URL to collect the comments under its latest or top posts. **$1 per 1,000 comments, no start fee.**

### Tested head-to-head — 29 September 2026

![Skool scrapers tested head-to-head: this Actor needs no login, returns 60 unique members when 60 are asked, 36 fields per post with the author's bio and links, $2 per 1,000 posts and $1.50 per 1,000 members](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/tZJ3TnhQJ1jqUQVXq/records/skool-tested-2026-09-29.png)

The same requests went to this Actor and to the six most-used Skool scrapers on the Apify Store: 20 posts and 60 members of The AI Advantage, 20 comments of one post, 20 communities for `marketing`.

| | This Actor | The six others |
|---|---|---|
| Login, cookies or password | **not needed** | 3 of 6 require them |
| 60 members asked | **60 different people** | 30 different people, each returned twice · or cookies required |
| Fields in a post row | **36**, with the author's bio and social links | 15–16, author name only |
| 20 communities found | **7.0 s**, 45 fields with owner links | 4.4–40.1 s, 16–43 fields |
| Price per 1,000 posts | **$2** | $3.00–5.40 |
| Price per 1,000 members | **$1.5** | $2.50–3.00 |

### What is Skool Comments Scraper?

A tool for reading reactions and finding the most engaged people in a community: launch feedback, questions under a lesson announcement, the people who answer others. Every comment carries the commenter's links, so the comment list doubles as a lead list.

| You give | You get |
|---|---|
| **Post URLs** | the post (optional), then every comment and reply under it |
| **Community URLs** | comments under the community's posts, in the feed order you pick (recent activity, newest, top of the week, month or year), up to your limit |

Filters: category, date window, minimum likes or comments on the post, comments per post.

### What data do you get?

`text`, `createdAt`, `likeCount`, `depth` (1 = comment, 2 = reply), `parentId`, `postId`, `postTitle`, `postUrl`, `links`, `mentions`, `authorName`, `authorHandle`, `authorProfileUrl`, `authorBio`, `authorLocation`, `authorLinkedin`, `authorInstagram`, `authorFacebook`, `authorTwitter`, `authorYoutube`, `authorTiktok`, `authorWebsite`, `authorLinks`, `communityName`, `communityUrl`.

### How much does it cost?

| Row | Price |
|---|---|
| **Comment** | **$0.001** — $1 per 1,000 |
| **Post** (Include the post itself on) | $0.002 |

No start fee, no proxy charge; a deleted post or a private community gives a free error row.

### ⬇️ Input

```json
{
    "mode": "comments",
    "postUrls": ["https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage/we-want-your-honest-opinion"],
    "includeRootPost": false,
    "maxResultsPerInput": 1000
}
```

### ⬆️ Output

```json
{
    "type": "comment",
    "text": "@… What are you trying to do with AI that's making you feel like it's slowing you down?",
    "createdAt": "2026-09-08T11:05:06.051023Z",
    "likeCount": 0,
    "depth": 2,
    "postTitle": "🤔 WE WANT YOUR HONEST OPINION!",
    "authorName": "AI Advantage Team",
    "authorBio": "AI COMMUNITY TEAM",
    "authorWebsite": "https://aiadvantage.com/",
    "authorYoutube": "https://www.youtube.com/@aiadvantage",
    "communityName": "The AI Advantage"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Feedback analysis** — every reaction to an announcement or launch, ready for sentiment analysis.
- **Engaged-lead lists** — the people who comment in your niche, with their LinkedIn, Instagram and website.
- **Community management** — unanswered questions, top helpers, busiest threads.

### ❓ FAQ

#### Is it legal to scrape Skool comments?

It reads only public communities, as skool.com shows them to a visitor who is not logged in. Comments contain personal data protected by laws like the GDPR — have a lawful reason to process it.

#### Why do I get fewer comments than the post's counter?

The counter includes deleted comments and comments hidden by moderators. Everything publicly readable is collected.

### You might also like

| Actor | What it does |
|---|---|
| [Skool Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/skool-scraper) | Posts, comments, members, communities and profiles in one Actor |
| [Skool Members Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/skool-members-scraper) | Members with bio, location, LinkedIn, Instagram and website |
| [Skool Posts Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/skool-posts-scraper) | A community's feed, search inside it, comments on demand |
| [Skool Community Scraper](https://apify.com/blueskyscraper/skool-community-scraper) | Discovery search, price, rating, reviews and the owner |

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

<b>Posts</b> — a community's feed, or search inside it with <i>Keywords</i>. <b>Comments</b> — every comment and reply under posts. <b>Members</b> — people with bio, location and social links. <b>Community details</b> — members, posts, price, owner, rating, plans. <b>Find communities</b> — search Skool Discovery by keyword, category, price and language. <b>Profiles</b> — followers and the communities a person owns.

## `communityUrls` (type: `array`):

Community URL or the name from its URL: <code>https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage</code> or <code>the-ai-advantage</code>. Public communities show posts and members to anyone; a private one shows only its About page (use <i>Community details</i>).

## `postUrls` (type: `array`):

A post in a public community: <code>https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage/\<post></code>.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Any skool.com link, routed automatically: community, its About or Members page, a post, a <code>@profile</code>, or a Discovery search like <code>https://www.skool.com/discovery?q=fitness</code>.

## `maxResultsPerInput` (type: `integer`):

Cap for each input, not for the whole run. Find communities returns up to 1,000 per keyword (all Skool Discovery shows).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

The same sorting the community feed offers.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Category names as the community shows them, e.g. <code>AI News</code>. A wrong name returns a free row listing the community's categories. Empty = all.

## `postedAfter` (type: `string`):

<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>. The feed is then read newest first and paging stops at this date.

## `postedBefore` (type: `string`):

<code>YYYY-MM-DD</code>. With <i>Only posts after</i> this gives a date window.

## `minLikes` (type: `integer`):

Drop posts with fewer likes.

## `minComments` (type: `integer`):

Drop posts with fewer comments.

## `maxCommentsPerPost` (type: `integer`):

Cap for comments under one post.

## `includeRootPost` (type: `boolean`):

Comments mode: a post row before its comments.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many rows in the whole run — a hard ceiling on cost.

## `monitoringStoreName` (type: `string`):

Give the run a name (e.g. <code>new-members</code>) and every later run with the same name returns <b>only rows it has not delivered before</b> — new posts, new comments, new members. Schedule it daily; nothing is billed twice. Empty = normal run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "comments",
  "communityUrls": [
    "https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerInput": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest-cm",
  "minLikes": 0,
  "minComments": 0,
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,
  "includeRootPost": true,
  "maxItems": 10000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `rows` (type: `string`):

One row per post, comment, member, community or profile; error rows explain inputs that could not be read.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "communityUrls": [
        "https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "communityUrls": ["https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "communityUrls": [
    "https://www.skool.com/the-ai-advantage"
  ]
}' |
apify call blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,blueskyscraper/skool-comments-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/CNimq5FNyZEfo9lge/builds/jc4l0rRs9B7mbs1Ix/openapi.json